Exam 5: Ethics,Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development

A(n)_______________________ (two words)is an official given the responsibility of corporate conscience who hears and investigates ethical complaints and points out potential ethics failures to top management.

The responsibility to adhere to actions that are justifiable,even if they are harmful to society in some way,equates with:

What are the four responsibilities that an organisation has according to the 'pyramid of responsibility'?

A group of executives assigned to oversee the organisation's ethics by ruling on questionable issues are known as chief ethics officers.

A proactive response means that the organisation accepts social responsibility for its actions,although it may do so in response to external pressure.

Managers that generally believe that 'harmful things happen,but they are nobody's fault' are likely to be espousing which type of ethical response?

A formal statement of an organisation's values regarding the role of ethics,which prescribes the required responses to foreseeable events is called a:

At the conventional stage of personal ethical development,a person lives up to the expectations of others,and fulfils their duties to others even if they break the law.

____________________ (two words)requires that rules should be clearly stated and consistently and impartially enforced.

Under the distributive justice approach,equals must be treated equally,while those that are unequal should be treated unequally.

List and define the criteria of corporate social responsibility.

The triple bottom line of organisational performance measurement includes all the following factors,except:

Ethics deals with __________ values that are a part of corporate culture and shapes decisions concerning social responsibility with respect to the __________ environment.

Management's obligation to make choices that will contribute to the welfare of both the organisation and society is known as __________________ (three words).

The ___________________ stage of moral development suggests that people will follow self-chosen principles of justice and right.

Which leadership style matches with the post-conventional level of personal moral development?

The distributive justice concept suggests that people should not be based on arbitrary characteristics.

The justice approach is closest to the thinking underlying the domain of free choice.

____________________ responsibility is purely voluntary and guided by a company's desire to make social contributions not mandated by economics,law or ethics.

In the domain of ethical behaviour,obedience is to: